After a month storyboarding, filming, narrating and editing I am happy to announce that I have the final version of an outreach/marketing video which I produced for the Long Beach Public Library entitled, "Introducing the LBPL Long Beach History Collection." All shots were filmed on site at the Long Beach Public Library, Main Branch [...]

Today, at the Long Beach Public Library, Long Beach History collection, I worked on accessioning, measuring, inventorying and re-housing some pretty amazing black and white glossy still photographs from 1918 Long Beach. These 4 x 6 photographs depict the local every day person who lived, worked and enjoyed the City of Long Beach during [...]

Today, at the Long Beach Public Library, Long Beach History collection, I removed rubber bands, counted, organized, labeled and re-housed over 1,037 transparent photographic slides. These slides, measuring 2" x 2", depicted the various events of and branches in the Long Beach Public Library system dating from the 1960s- 1990s. They were originally stored [...]

The Exhibit In February 2017 I had the pleasure of creating three display case exhibits featuring oversized art books, artifacts, woodblock prints and ephemera from our Miller Room Collections at the Long Beach Public Library, Main branch. Items being displayed are part of the donated collections from Loraine Miller Collins in memory of her late husband, Earl [...]

Project Background One of the great parts of working as a substitute librarian at Long Beach Public Library is that it allows me to get to know all the different branches, communities and librarians in the system. While working at the Ruth Bach Neighborhood Library I was talking with the head librarian, Chenda Yong, when she [...]